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Also see the spec PR from WebKit: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9546

comment by domenicd · 2024-02-29 · in An HTML Switch Control

…these seem to indicate that it's not around the corner either. Happy (/hope) to be corrected. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4180 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/990

comment by 000ooo000 · 2024-02-29 · in An HTML Switch Control

The `allow` attribute on iframes is a relatively recent API addition from 2017 https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3287

comment by felixfbecker · 2024-02-28 · in YouTube video embedding harm reduction

…lets you load external content into the page declaratively. There's a spec issue open for this: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791 And my custom element implementation of the idea: https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-include-element…

comment by spankalee · 2024-02-19 · in Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML

…Well, for example, here's the form you have to fill out to start standardizing a front-end feature. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/new?assignees=&labels=... It asks three main questions: * What problem are you trying to solve? *…

comment by dfabulich · 2024-01-11 · in Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?

…mechanism for making a multi-format multi-media web where sites could have defined yaml viewers! https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/630

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-12-28 · in YAML's homepage is displayed in YAML

…you're discussing for free. For <dialog>, the discussion is in progress and reaching a conclusion: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9373

comment by domenicd · 2023-12-07 · in New in Chrome 120 back button detection

Do you mean like Declarative Shadom Dom? https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5465

comment by uallo · 2023-11-18 · in HTML Web Components: An Example

…here's some bugs raised by Andreas Kling in the HTML spec that were found while building Ladybird: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues?q=is%3Aissue+author%3A...

comment by igrunert · 2023-11-09 · in Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation

…to make sure I wasn't just out of the loop on this, as far as I can tell they are not the same: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5025

comment by Wowfunhappy · 2023-10-31 · in macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

…that eventually we might get some kind of auto-resizing iframe (one starting point on the topic: < https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/555 >), so that you could put a response iframe below the form and make it the target. This exposes…

comment by chrismorgan · 2023-09-10 · in Making a newsletter backend

…of triggering them without JavaScript. Using pure HTML you can only dismiss them, not trigger them. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3567 > dialog elements are a great addition and I'm glad they're getting implemented, but a key part…

comment by SPBS · 2023-08-02 · in I'm betting on HTML

…`dialog` with no changes and all the issues intact and unsolved landed in all major browsers. [0] https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/4184#issuecomment-440405... [1] https://dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-d

comment by troupo · 2023-05-24 · in Popover API

…advice about adding a `rel` attr is outdated, modern browsers will do this by default with `_blank` https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4078

comment by cantSpellSober · 2023-02-20 · in Goodbye, CSS-Tricks

Here's a long conversation on it from 2016: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1929 It does seem to have something to do with interfering with automatic focus on the dialog when it pops up as a modal.

comment by Izkata · 2023-02-12 · in The <Dialog> Element

…Asked about an Accept Header on the windows.open function. They just gave them the run around. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7810

comment by whatgroupsajoke · 2023-01-31 · in W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

yep this is the way forward, ideally with something like the proposed passwordrules attribute https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518

comment by gpmcadam · 2022-12-23 · in Password Requirements: Myths and Madness

…from server-side runtimes like Node and Deno, and so on. Some interesting pages to peruse might be https://github.com/whatwg/html/commits/main , https://github.com/whatwg/html/graphs/contributors?type=c , and https://blog.whatwg.org/ .…

comment by domenicd · 2022-12-18 · in W3C’s transfer from MIT to non-profit going poorly

…straightforward to do basically, though you could do vastly better with an auto-resizing iframe ( https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/555 ) which would basically allow you to load new content into the document with a click (though it’ll…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-10-15 · in Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)

…of making this behaviour part of the standard, since it's implemented by all of the major browsers. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2390

comment by jdmnd · 2022-09-18 · in YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in WebKit

…(here are the proposals for JS https://github.com/tc39/proposals ), whatWG also uses GH https://github.com/whatwg/html

comment by pas · 2022-08-19 · in RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

…article mentions, even being removed from the spec at one point [1] and then being added back in. https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/5ddfc78b1f82e86cc202d7...

comment by TAKEMYMONEY · 2022-04-27 · in Non-interactive Elements with the inert attribute

…local part, which isn’t supported everywhere but is, I believe, fairly widely supported now. See https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562 plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address_internationaliza... for a little more background…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-04-20 · in Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)

…I was faced with similar issues designing TOTP/PIN controls. Didn't gain much traction though. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5209

comment by sangeeth96 · 2022-04-12 · in Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers (2020)

…occurances that overuse observedAttributes. All in all though, this library looks really great. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7039

comment by jjcm · 2022-04-04 · in Shoelace: A Web Component Kit

…that it's possible dialog should be fully removed as there's no interest in implementing it: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/4184#issuecomment-440405... Fast forward to 2021, and Chrome breaks the web by removing built-in…

comment by dmitriid · 2022-03-15 · in New WebKit features in Safari 15.4

…reason is CORS. Web Devs (such as me) have asked for e.g. DELETE as an acceptable formmethod (e.g. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3577 ) however WHATWG always pushes back citing security concerns such as CORS. I suspect this is not…

comment by runarberg · 2022-03-12 · in How to Design Better APIs

…cancelled, and you can follow up with much more debate from all parties on roundRect and filters: http://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6763 https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6765 This is certainly not decided by fiat. Working to find…

comment by mysteryDate · 2022-03-04 · in It's always been you, Canvas2D

…such functionality to my canvas library[2]. The results work, but are slower than ideal. [1] - https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5620 [2] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/dom-015.html

comment by rikroots · 2022-03-04 · in It's always been you, Canvas2D

…seems likely to, and I don’t know of anything other than conformance checkers that implements it. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/83 shows a bit of the discussion that’s gone on; whether to remove it, simplify it drastically to the…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-02-24 · in Textile Markup Language

…It’s definitely not in the spec and there’s an open discussion about trying to get it added: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2177

comment by tytho · 2022-02-12 · in Server-Sent Events: an alternative to WebSockets

I tried to correct something minor in the HTML spec a couple of years ago < https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5156 >, but I couldn’t contribute it individually because I happened at the time to be employed by a company that works on the…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-01-07 · in I found a one-char typo in the docs for Python's typing_extensions library

…about the same category of people who refuse to implement client side include for the web.[1] [1]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791 Edit: People already know what the requirements are at a minimum because video games exist, and…

comment by andrewmcwatters · 2021-12-11 · in The HTTP of VR

…in that regard in 2018 and proposed a passwordrules attribute with a mini description language: • https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518 • https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_... •…

comment by ttepasse · 2021-11-18 · in I hate password rules

This is something that folks are working on via the `passwordrules` attribute https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518 With that and a well-known endpoint for changing passwords (not quite the same thing as what you’re describing;…

comment by whymarrh · 2021-11-16 · in I hate password rules

…formats browsers should make it easy. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=791658 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7141

comment by atom_arranger · 2021-10-28 · in The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board

…can end up with different text alignment and measurements between browsers. See this spec issue: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6731

comment by AshleysBrain · 2021-10-25 · in The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text

TBF even the spec authors are a bit confused about that attribute: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5466 It has complex and non-obvious effects. greggman on the three.js issue wrote a really nice summary on why it shouldn't be the…

comment by wffurr · 2021-10-07 · in RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term

I think this is almost funny. If it weren't so sad. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7137/files

comment by Akronymus · 2021-10-03 · in Six Hacktoberfest spam PRs have been sent to the HTML Standard in just one day

I like this one: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7139/files

comment by asddubs · 2021-10-03 · in Six Hacktoberfest spam PRs have been sent to the HTML Standard in just one day

…Safari prior to merging code into the codebase or simply lobbing a spec proposal over the fence. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6297

comment by zamadatix · 2021-08-26 · in Canistilluse.com

I think they may have meant to link this instead: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8857... there's also another reply to the parent with a link to the chromium issue tracker confirming this

comment by asddubs · 2021-08-26 · in Canistilluse.com

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894 Apparently they are. How disappointing, I really like how useful they are for quickly getting something working and maintaining a consistent and expected experience for the user.

comment by NegativeLatency · 2021-08-26 · in Canistilluse.com

…and eventually removed. Browser makers have declared they’d like to remove them altogether: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894 . But they’re too popular to remove under current policies unless they’re really causing harm, and I do…

comment by chrismorgan · 2021-08-26 · in Canistilluse.com

> has 76 comments, as of writing this. Seventy six. Out of millions of users. I just commented in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8933... and https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894#issuecomment-8933... - and…

comment by matkoniecz · 2021-08-05 · in Google hits undo on limiting JavaScript capabilities in cross-origin iframes

The Register cites this: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8857... Also this: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1422930436850860033

comment by vasachi · 2021-08-05 · in Google hits undo on limiting JavaScript capabilities in cross-origin iframes

…this is just a first step toward eventually completely removing them, which will take many years. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8857...

comment by david_allison · 2021-08-04 · in Google is considering removing alert()

There's an ongoing conversation that has lasted about four years on https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791 regarding whether or not browsers should implement `<include>`, (think client-side SSI, php's `include`, ngInclude, or similar…

comment by andrewmcwatters · 2021-08-04 · in Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes

…members of the WHATWG to push for the removal of any blocking methods in JavaScript. To quote from https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897 : > _In general all of the simple dialogs (alert(), prompt(), confirm(), and beforeunload) are…

comment by Andrex · 2021-08-03 · in Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes

…Unfortunately I can’t see history of the spec before 2006 though https://github.com/whatwg/html

comment by yonran · 2021-08-02 · in How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion